Lingulella chengjiangensis3D Model
Lingulella chengjiangensis
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More model informationYunnan Province, China, ~518 million years old.
Lingulella had a shell consisting of upper and lower halves that rested on the sea floor surface, with a long fleshy stalk partially buried in the mud to anchor the animal. It filtered particles from the seawater using a spiral-shaped feeding organ, like its modern brachiopod relatives. Brachiopods are relatively rare today but were much more common in the Cambrian.
Created for the First Animals exhibition at Oxford University Museum of Natural History: www.oum.ox.ac.uk/firstanimals
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Jul 3rd 2019
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